“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Good advice. We just never thought it would apply to Justin Trudeau and his Liberals in their attempts to memorialize the Holocaust.

You know the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s campaign to annihilate European Jewry? The murder of six million Jews, along with millions of other supposedly impure ethnicities, gay people, and disabled individuals. These facts are extremely well known and disputed only by hateful deniers. So why do the Liberals keep screwing them up?

Last year it was on International Holocaust Memorial Day, when Trudeau’s generic statement proved rather too generic. “On this day, we pay tribute to the memory of the millions of victims murdered during the Holocaust. We honour those who survived atrocities at the hands of the Nazi regime, and welcome their courageous stories of hope and perseverance.” You might have noticed he failed to mention the very people who were targeted specifically by the Nazis, those brutally persecuted for being one thing: Jews.

It was an error, the government insisted. An embarrassing oversight. Lesson learned!

An embarrassing oversight. Lesson learned! Only, it was not

Only … it wasn’t learned. This week, the prime minister dedicated Ottawa’s National Holocaust Monument with a plaque commemorating “the millions of men, women and children murdered during the Holocaust and … the survivors who persevered and were able to make their way to Canada after one of the darkest chapters in history.”

Notice something missing? Again?!

Is it too much of a challenge for our diversity-obsessed prime minister to recall any atrocity not helpfully named after the location or the victims? The Armenian, Rwandan and Cambodian Genocides he can surely figure out. The Holocaust is harder; it doesn’t actually directly name its victims, the Jewish people. And, gosh, it’s almost confusing how similar it sounds to the Holodomor, the Soviet regime’s deliberate starvation of Ukrainian people (which the prime minister, we fear, might someday lament as “much hunger experienced in Eastern Europe”).

The Liberals have had the plaque removed to be replaced by something that — hopefully — actually mentions Jews and enduring anti-Semitism. Until then, can we suggest the prime minister keep a cheat sheet handy? Something simple, like “Remember: Holocaust = Jews,” stitched into his embroidered socks.